Feeling Grounded

  • Valentine Day Coup

    On this day of hearts and flowerswhen planting seeds of love should only be,Why is it I feel storms all around me? Raging fires, monster winds,and angry, unrelenting rain.Do you also feel the pain? On a mission to destroy.No mercy. Understand?Clear the land! Make way to reseed.Destroy all evidence of old.Tabula rasa. Be bold! Weeds…

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  • Trust Me. I Understand Rage

    I know what it looks like. I know how it feels. Rage was my mother – a church going, rosary-reciting, rule-following, angry woman. She called it “Holy Anger” when she beat me. And she beat me often with anything she could grab: a yardstick, a fly-swatter, her hand. Hitting, slapping, gauging, pulling at my hair,…

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  • Rage Against The System

    “Across the Universe” was last night’s movie choice; a movie filled with Beatles music, showcasing the late 60s and 70s, when I was entering adulthood, when the Vietnam war was the backdrop of our lives. There was a reason youth rebelled in those days: in the way we dressed, our music, and getting high to…

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